MrTia

i think it's more like, once that war whoop started building up, you didn't want to be the last politician on your block to yell for saddam's head. war is pretty obviously a political bonanza, as any president who's enjoyed an unearned 90-percent approval rating will tell ya, and when that frenzy gets started everyone wants a piece of the action.

i mean, c'mon. iraq had been languishing under sanctions for 12 years, and condoleezza rice was talking about "mushroom clouds" over the cities of america? as though hussein was somehow going to manufacture a hydrogen bomb and find a way to deliver it halfway across the world? that's an industrial undertaking, everyone who thought about it for more than a few seconds knew it. i never imagined iraq was a threat to the united states, the idea is preposterous. but once that frenzy gets worked up, everyone in the political world with the rare exception of some highly principled characters, hops on.

so the question really is: who worked up the frenzy, and why?

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